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Originally Posted by tkdgirl
God help those poor Georgians.
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They have one chance, if NATO makes a stand.
The UN will wring their hands and do nothing as usual.
Putin wants the Soviet satellites back, and this is a warning to all of them not to get to close to the west or try to get into NATO. Ukraine and Lithuania should be shitting in their pants right now, the Ukraine is having it's own issues with Russia. Putin knows the mistakes they made last time were economic, so he's opened up the economy, while recreating the old Soviet style government.
This will have strong repercussions regarding the Iran nuke talks going on. Israel will note what the west response is to Russia, and if the west leaves Georgia on it's own, Israel will know that it can't expect western support in regard to Iran.
Bush had nothing to do with this latest word disaster, except maybe in the fact that he didn't really know what type of man Putin is, and even if he had Putin was going to do this anyway. Saakashvili overplayed his hand a little, but Putin was helping to create a reason to call for invasion.
Putin took the measure of Bush back when Bush and he met, and he knew Bush was not paying attention to Putin and what's been going on in Russia for the past 8 years. Bush is also a lame duck and Putin is totally playing on that in regard to timing this. Russia has lost it's world standing as as Superpower, and Putin is going to remind the world that it still exits.
Others tried to bring attention to the fact that Putin is pure evil ex-KGB and were shouted down as not having gotten over the cold war. This has been coming for a long time, there have been assisinations, arrests, etc just like the old days of the Soviet Union